"Nothing but a shame-faced, hang-dog, toe-scuffling silence, an admission sadder than any words could be."

You mistake my temporary silence, Amos, because of your own ill-founded assumption that I have no other life or concerns outside posting on this forum... ;-) Such is not the case. I was busy, sir, busy with things you cannot possibly comprehend or truly appreciate.

However, your later statement: "Only he understands the depth of the depravity, the breadth of the perversity, and the profundity of the illiteracy that permeates every waking moment in Blind River."

With that I must concur. Well put.